All the President's Minutes is a podcast where conversations about movies, journalism, politics and history meet. Each show we use the seminal and increasingly prescient 1976 film All The President's Men as a portal, to engage with the themes and the warnings of the film resonating since its release. For minute 128, I join the Dame of Australian film and culture writing, the awesome Philippa Hawker. Philippa and I talk about the complex to and fro of interrogation happening across this film, the shared sentiments of Deep Throat and Omar from "The Wire," and finally look to cast a light on a fascinating "Watergate" level instant of Australian institutional espionage that continues to evade the appropriate level of attention. 

About PHILIPPA HAWKER

PHILIPPA HAWKER IS A FILM AND CULTURE WRITER. SHE IS A FORMER EDITOR OF THE NOW DEFUNCT AUSTRALIAN FILM JOURNAL CINEMA PAPERS AND FORMER CULTURE WRITER AT THE AUSTRALIAN.

TWITTER: @PHILIPPICS

OUTLETS:THE AUSTRALIAN, CINEMA PAPERS

Bernard Collaery and Witness K LINKS: 

• WIKIPEDIA,

• Witness K and the 'outrageous' spy scandal that failed to shame Australia by Christopher Knaus

• Why Bernard Collaery's case is one of the gravest threats to freedom of expression

• Bernard Collaery, Witness K and the trial the media can't cover | Media Watch